| Project/Area Number |
12620084
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Politics
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| Research Institution | KYUSHU UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
SEKIGUCHI Masashi Kyushu University, Faculty of Law, Professor, 大学院・法学研究院, 教授 (60163101)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2003
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2003)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
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| Keywords | England / the history of political thought / political leadership / nineteenth century / political philosophy / political theory |
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| Research Abstract |
It is necessary for understanding of various views on political leadership, argued for and against by different political writers in the nineteenth British political thought, to grasp not only their attitudes towards democracy but also their evaluations of the present constitution and its history. From this point of views, this research focuses on two writers in this period. The first is Benjamin Disraeli who published The Vindication of English Constitution in 1835. The second is Walter Bagehot. His impressive discussions on the "dignified parts" of English constitution is in fact closely connected with his previous essays in 1850s and 60s. A kind of key concept for the understanding his views on the deferential character of English people can be found in these essays, particularly in his description of the change of dynasties in the early part of the eighteenth century. Bagehot found out there two different kinds of deference; the one was operated in the process of forming public opinion; the other was out of that process. He also noticed that constitutional ways of distributing powers among the nation could have influenced the operation of these two kinds of deference. It is this insight around which his brilliant analyses were deployed in his The English Constitution.
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